Podcasts and Radio
“The Evolution of the Chapter,” a conversation with Phillip Adams, Late Night Live from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (2024) [Apple] [Radio Australia]
On The Chapter, a conversation with Miranda Melcher, New Books in Literary Studies (2024) [Apple] [New Books Network] [Spotify]
On The Chapter, a conversation with Jacke Wilson, History of Literature podcast (2023) [Apple] [Spotify]
On The Chapter, a conversation with Xavier Bonilla, Converging Dialogues podcast (2023) [Apple] [YouTube]
On Professing Criticism, a conversation with John Guillory and host John Plotz, Recall This Book podcast (2023) [Apple]
On the 150th anniversary of Middlemarch, CBC Ideas (2022) [CBC Radio: Part One, Part Two]
Host of “The Novel Now,” the second season of Public Books‘ podcast “Public Books 101”: conversations with novelists and scholars about the possibilities of the novel in the 21st century, with guests such as Teju Cole, Elif Batuman, Garth Greenwell, Heidi Julavits, and others (2021) [Public Books 101 page] [Apple]
On Middlemarch, Writ Large podcast (2021) [Apple]
On Dennis Tenen’s Plain Text, the Heyman Center for the Humanities’ New Books in the Arts and Sciences podcast (2018) [Soundcloud]
On the history of the chapter, How To Read podcast (2017) [Apple]
On the digital humanities, Rather Be Reading podcast from The Point magazine (2017) [Apple] [Soundcloud]
On Jane Eyre, Minnesota Public Radio (2011): listen
On consciousness and the novel (with Sandra Macpherson), Chicago Public Radio (2003): listen
News and Interviews
Interview in Shelf Awareness, November 17, 2023
“Why Do Books Have Chapters?”: interview with Columbia News, November 8, 2023
Profile of my spring 2020 Literature Humanities class, reading Dostoevsky in a pandemic; David Denby in the New Yorker, June 29 2020 issue
Interview by Andrés Lomeña Cantos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, December 2013
“Social Networking in the Age of Austen, Trollope and Dickens,” Columbia Record, January 2011
Interview with Columbia College Today, March/April 2008
Upcoming Talks